“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle
Saturday, January 22, 2011
2011 - It's Now or Never - Maybe
Like most people, I have been considering my running (and other) goals for this year. While reading "Born To Run" I started thinking about one of the claims made by one of the researchers in the book: basically the claim is that runners steadily improve between the ages of 19 and 27 and then slowly decline - returning to their 19 year-old equivalent at the age of 64 - Yes, that's 64. Yeeha, I thought, this gives me hope, this gives me time. I figure I'm still somewhere in the 25 year-old runner range. So, what does that mean for my running goals - hmmm - Here I go: qualify for Boston AND New York City (because I'm tired of waiting to get in via the lottery). Ok. Off for a 15 miler. Time will tell;)
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